Background

Dr. Narendra K. Gupta, Ph.D., also known as Naren, co-founded Nexus Venture Partners and serves as its Partner. Dr. Gupta has been Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners since December 2006. Dr. Gupta is a Co-Founder, Managing Director and Partner of Nexus India Capital and Nexus India Capital II, L.P. Dr. Gupta serves as an Advisor of Bluestream Ventures. He is an active advisor to entrepreneurs worldwide. He has over 20 years of early and early-growth stage investment ... experience in US and India. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Interim President of Numerical Technologies, Inc. From June 2004 to January 2005, Dr. Gupta served as the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer Quick Eagle Networks, Inc. (Formerly Digital Link Corporation). He served as an Advisor of Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He served as an Interim President and Interim Chief Executive Officer of Wind River Systems Inc, from June 24, 2003 to January 5, 2004. Dr. Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems Inc. in 1980 and served as its Secretary since September 1989 and Chief Executive Officer and President from 1980 to May 1994. He serves as Chairman of Gluster, Inc. Dr. Gupta served as Chairman of InSync Software, Inc. since May 2004. He served as the Chairman of Integrated Systems Inc. since March 1993 until 2000 and served as its Director since 1980. He has been Vice Chairman and Director of Wind River Systems, Inc. since February 2000. He served as Vice Chairman of Rapid Logic, Inc. Dr. Gupta has been a Director of Red Hat, Inc., since November 15, 2005 and SimSci-Esscor (Formerly Simulation Sciences Inc.) since March 1994. Dr. Gupta serves as a Director of Aryaka Networks Inc., PubMatic, Inc., Cloud.com, Inc., Kaltura Inc., mChek India Payment Systems Pvt. Ltd., InSync Software Inc., Mistral Software Ltd., Vdopia Inc. and Kirusa Inc. He serves as a Board Advisor of Serus Corporation and served as its Director. Dr. Gupta serves as a Member of the Advisory Board of Voyager Capital. He served as a Director of Mistral Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He served as a Director of TIBCO Software Inc. (formerly Proginet Corporation) from April 2002 to April 3, 2014. He served as a Director of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. He served as a Director of Numerical Technologies, Inc. since April 1997. He served as a Director of Speedera Networks Inc., ENCIRQ Corporation and Moonlight Systems, Inc. Dr. Gupta served as a Board Observer of Dimdim, Inc. He served as a Director of Quick Eagle Networks, Inc. since 1985. He served as a Director of Indian School of Business. He has received distinguished alumni awards from Caltech and IIT. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in November 1991. He is a recipient of President's Gold Medal. Dr. Gupta holds a Ph.D. Degree in Engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and completed a B.Tech degree from I.I.T. Delhi in Delhi, India.

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